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65Dangerous Loyalties and Liberatory PoliticsHypatia 13 (4). 1998.While communities engaged in liberatory struggles have valued group loyalty and condemned betrayal, loyalty itself may be problematic, because remaining loyal to a community may require that one refrain from deconstructing the group identity on which the community is based. This essay investigates what loyalty is and whether loyalty is a virtue, and considers why, if loyalty is indeed a virtue, it may be one that is difficult to maintain in a context of oppression.
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12Critical Virtue Ethics: Understanding Oppression as Morally DamagingIn Peggy DesAutels & Joanne Waugh (eds.), Feminists Doing Ethics, Rowman & Littlefield. 2001.A critically revised Aristotelian-based virtue ethics has something potentially useful to offer to those engaged in analyzing oppression and creating liberatory projects. A critical virtue ethics can help clarify one of the ways in which oppression interferes with flourishing; specifically, it helps clarify an aspect of oppression that can be called "moral damage."
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15Virtue and the Moral Life: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives (edited book)Lexington Books. 2014.Virtue and the Moral Life brings together distinguished philosophers and theologians with younger scholars of consummate promise to produce ten essays that engage both academics and students of ethics. This collection explores the role virtues play in identifying the good life and the good society
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184Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of MoralityOup Usa. 2014.Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality asks what happens when the sense that "I must" collides with the realization that "I can't." Bringing together philosophical and empirical work in moral psychology, Lisa Tessman here examines moral requirements that are non-negotiable and that contravene the principle that "ought implies can."
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Areas of Specialization
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |